/lit/ - Literature

>>19026269
>The country dominated by a woman is to be despised. And so to be despised is the being who becomes dominated by the power of a woman.
Fucking based. All simps get the rope.

>>14438561
Or you listen to the wise:
>One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

>>14340171
>I don't know if I'll kill the cat in the future
You should consider killing yourself instead

>>14315139
If you had read Schopenhauer, you'd know that a true man of inner worth would do better to be without friends than to debase himself by such associations.

>>14274632
>Schopenhauer
Don't associate him with your petty tribe wars. He was decidedly Apolitical, and for good reasons too. Nothing good will ever come from your idiocies.

>>14179849
Reminder that Schopenhauer wrote an autobiography but his biographer decided to burn it all so no one would know what really happened in his life.

Post a philosopher who said a lot of good shit but spoke an awful lot of fucking shite. "hurr the thing in itself". Shut the fuck up faggot, jesus.

*Unsheathes pen*

>Women are...big children all their life--a kind of intermediary stage between the child and the full-grown man.
>The fundamental fault of the female character is that it has no sense of justice.
>Instead of calling them beautiful, there would be more warrant for describing women as the unaesthetic sex. Neither for music, nor for poetry, nor for fine art, have they really and truly any sense or susceptibility; it is a mockery if they make a pretense of it in order to assist their endeavor to please.

>>12580114
not even close

stop reading science fiction and fantasy

what did he mean by
>"Time is nothing more than the form of the principle of sufficient reason, and has no further significance"

help a brainlet out

Why does /lit/ prefer do read and discuss philosophy over psychology?

Whats the tl:dr of most necessary philosophy books to read in order to read and understand the 19-20th century philosophers starting with the Greeks /lit/? I dont want to spend decades reading every single book in this list
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic?pli=1

Whats the tl:dr shortcut of most important books to read in order to read and understand the 19-20th century nerds starting with the Greeks /lit/?

I want to read Schopenhauer without reading every book on this list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic?pli=1

The problem is it's fucking huge and would take me a lifetime. Is it possible to get a tr;dl on the most necessary philosophers and their books to read to understand Schopenhauer fully without having their thoughts fly over my head? The alternative is I read every single book and get to Schopenhauer by about the year 2030.

DUDE
WOMEN
LMAO

>>11178854
He observed the cultural/social life and found patterns in it, which he then wrote down in a stylish way. No reason to dismiss such observations coming from a brilliant mind.

What non political philosophers do you guys recommend for a better view on life?

What non political philosophers do you guys recommend for a betterment of life?

Is arthur schopenhauer the most based philosopher I should read on? I see him being posted here often or who is it?

Ive been listening to a few audiobooks of pic related. I had to stop halfway through, it hurts to hear. Ive always been nihilistic, but ive never thought about how truly painful existence is until now. Is it possible to cope?

>People have will
>Therefore everything in the universe including electricity and gravity are caused by will
Is this nigger serious?

>>9686838
I too hate less your lack of ignorance on pessimism

>In the year 1831, Schopenhauer fell in love with a girl named Flora Weiss. At a boat party in Germany he made his advance by offering her a bunch of grapes. Flora’s diary records this event as follows: "I didn’t want the grapes because old Schopenhauer had touched them, so I let them slide, quite gently into the water." Apparently, she was underwhelmed."